I tried the video in reverse effect in a clip I edited earlier this evening. It's a bit finnicky but the result is reasonable. The clip I was using reverse on was that of my niece in the pool at my brother's place during Xmas 1998(when she was 8 years old. My then-24-year-old nephew was in the pool with her and she was getting up on his shoulders to throw over into the pool. The reversal was for comic effect as she'd splash into the pool(forward motion), then go back to her brother's shoulder(reverse). this repeated a few times gets the necessary comic effect I was after.
To achieve this, I took 2 full seconds of video clip, splitting at the beginning and end of that portion, copied the portion to clipboard, then, pushing the rest of the video along the timeline to make some room, pasted the portion 7 times into the space I provided(total - 14 seconds). On the 2nd, 4th and 6th paste, I applied the "video reverse" effect. It looked a bit patchy in preview but came up okay after final render. The trick is, have at least 1 second's worth of video(25 frames) for the video in reverse effect, paste in as often as wanted but make sure it's an odd number(3, 5, 7, 9,11 times, and so on) but don't overdo it! The comic effect gets a bit tiresome after too many applications. The reason for the odd number is because the last portion should play forward, to match the rest of the video as you come out of the effect. The formula is simple = 1st, 3rd, 5th & so on play forward, 2nd, 4th, 6th & so on play in reverse.
Situations that lend themselves to this effect are: diving into a pool, blowing out candles on a birthday cake, falling off a surfboard or snow-skis, pouring liquid(beer, cola, wine, etc.) into a glass, a plane taking off.... Your imagination would give you more possibilities.
Cheers!
Neil.
When I said "This evening", I was going by Australian east coast daylight savings time. This website operates in a USA time zone(not sure which one, east coast, central or west coast) and it was early morning in that zone while being early evening or late afternoon here.
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